Illuminati (1995)

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The stated goal of
population reduction in the Illuminati card game is no joke. Coincidentally,
the 9/11 attacks, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf Oil Spill were
depicted in the game before they actually occurrence in real life. Curiously, the
Illuminati game also has a card of what appears to be the image of Ron Paul and Alex Jones.

Genesis of Game In September 1981, Steve Jackson and his regular freelance cover artist Dave Martin discussed their shared admiration of the Illuminatus! Trilogy,
and the latter suggested a game. Steve Jackson decided against adapting
the novel because of the expense of game rights, and the difficulty of
adapting a novel with such convoluted plots. He decided "a game about
the secret-conspiracy idea behind Illuminatus!" was doable. After doing
research on the Illuminati and conspiracy theories, and "extensive and enthusiastic playtesting" it went on the market in July 1982 in the Pocket Box
format (a plastic box the size of a mass-market paperback) which was at
the time the usual for SJG. Over the next few years, three expansions
for the Pocket Box Illuminati game were published—the first two were
substantially incorporated into the deluxe edition, while the third was
an earlier version of what would become Illuminati: Brainwash.

Robert
Shea provided a four-paragraph introduction to the rulebook for the
Illuminati Expansion Set 1 (1983), in which he wrote, "Maybe the
Illuminati are behind this game. They must be—they are, by definition,
behind everything." Despite this initial involvement, Wilson later
criticized some of these products for exploiting the Illuminatus! name
without paying royalties (taking advantage of what he viewed as a legal
loophole). Later commentators have attributed both the game and the
Illuminatus! Trilogy as using real conspiracies as "targets of ridicule"
(Wikipedia, 2012).